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Should you sell your inworld Second Life creations as Original, Copy, or Contents? That depends on what you intend to do, as this fast, easy, and fun video shows:

Here are some pros and cons of each (feel free to expand this list):

Original

• Sells the actual inworld object as-is. If someone buys it, they're informed they now own the object as they see it inworld.
  • If they want to take it with them, they must take it into their inventory. Otherwise, it stays inworld and could be returned or lost.
• This is useful for yard sales involving no-copy but transferable objects, where it's usually preferable to show objects in 3D instead of a packaged picture. Plus, the owner may have lost or discarded the original packaging.
• This is also useful if you've built a structure on someone else's land and want to sell it to them, in-place, without them having to re-rez it.
  • Current limitations of the system means the new owner has to buy each object, and there's no current way to set objects for sale like there is land.
  • However, if you're selling a land parcel, there's an option to also "Sell the objects with the land."

Copy

• Sells a copy (surprisingly enough) the object you bought. The original stays inworld, while the copy appears in your inventory.
• If the object is meant to be used as-is, you can rez it inworld. For example, you see a pretty tree inworld and you buy that.
• However, if the object came in a box, you need to not only unrez it, but unpack it. For creators, there's a click action you can use so customers can left-click to open a box (which is simpler than right-clicking and using the context menu).
• In many cases, you're better off selling Contents rather than Copy, because it reduces the potentially frustrating intermediary steps of opening the box.
  • An exception to this is if you consider packaging an important part of the experience, like if your boxes look really beautiful:

    

• An advantage to having the boxed copy is a backup that's more resilient to being messed up, unlike a folder which can have its contents jumbled. However, a creative way of dealing with that when selling Contents is to also recursively include a box inside the contents. That may be a "best of both worlds" approach.

Contents

• Sells what's inside the object you bought and delivers it in a folder with the name of the object in the recipient's inventory.
• The contents are what you see when you right-click an object, choose Edit, and click the Content tab.
• If you have lots of wall displays where there are multiple objects inside the "container" object — such as a variety of hairstyles that can be bought as a batch — then Contents is likely the way to go.
• Contents is generally the best choice for selling what's inside wall display-style stores, unless you're sure there's an advantage otherwise.